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New Balance honors Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City concept in latest sneaker collab

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A new collaboration between New Balance and fashion designer Ronnie Fieg is paying homage Frank Lloyd Wright ’s utopian concept for the ‘ Broadacre City ’ that first appeared in his seminal title The Disappearing City in 1932.

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Landscape Architect Kongjian Yu, Pioneer of the "Sponge City" Concept, Wins the 2023 Oberlander Prize

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Kongjian Yu has gained international recognition for his concept of “sponge cities,” a measure to address and prevent urban flooding in the context of accelerated climate change.

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BIG's ‘Mindfulness City’ concept seeks to deliver new forms of prosperity to southern Bhutan

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‘Mindfulness City’ is a multifaceted economic hub designed by the firm’s Landscape and Urban Design Team to coincide with sustainability principles and the pioneering Gross National Happiness Index (GNH) concept that has been championed by King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and the Bhutanese government since 2008.

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RIOS unveils 100-year 'Hyper-Abundant City' concept at Seoul Biennale

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The firm's concept for the 'Hyper-Abundant City' significantly alters the upscale Apgujeong district by incorporating the urban fabric of the adjacent Gangnam neighborhood while extending an existing connection to the Han River.

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Innovative design concepts win the Los Angeles Affordable Housing Challenge

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Participants were challenged with designing "flexible" solutions to the city's ongoing housing crisis. Each concept design was submitted without limitations of site or scale and judged based on its practicality and aversion away from standard-fare notions of housing, design, and community.

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University of Miami's School of Architecture to design smart 'Silica City' concept for booming Guyana

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The University of Miami School of Architecture has announced its participation in a master planning project that will help develop a smart city in the capital region of Guyana, South America. Preliminary design work has already begun via a new 12-student studio that was taught in the fall by former School of Architecture dean Jose A.

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Balancing Neoclassical and Futuristic Design: The Utopian Dream Bathroom Concept

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Courtesy of AXOR Nowadays, the term “ utopia ” is used to describe an idea that seems unattainable —at least in the contemporary context— intrinsically related to philosophical, scientific, urbanistic, and architectural concepts, among others.

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